Negotiators from both parties in the House are struggling to complete work on a comprehensive agreement to reform immigration. The House’s own “gang” is made up of 4 members from each party. According to reports they have broad agreement on
On May 14, the House Ways and Means Committee demanded the IRS turn over documents and answer questions related to the targeting of conservative groups. The letter was signed by the Chairman David Camp and ranking member Sander Levin of the
Cyrus Nowrasteh, the creative mind behind The Stoning of Soraya M. and The Path to 9/11, will be bringing the life of a famed Russian activist to the big screen. Nowrasteh will write and direct a film based on Soviet
(AP) Milwaukee backs off bra ban for historic barBy CARRIE ANTLFINGERAssociated PressMILWAUKEEA historic Milwaukee bowling alley and bar almost went without the appropriate support after a city inspector decided dozens of bras hanging from its ceiling were a fire hazard.
Will the new Star Trek sequel boldly go where much of Hollywood has gone before–bashing President George W. Bush? Benedict Cumberbatch, the British actor who plays the mysterious villain in Star Trek Into Darkness, told BBC America that the new
Cook County commissioners were asked about Sheriff Tom Dart’s conceal carry proposal to be implemented in case Illinois state lawmakers do not pass their own conceal carry law by the June 9 deadline. Right now, Illinois is the only state that
Terrorism is back in the headlines, from the Boston Marathon bombings to the horrors of the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi. What pop culture consumers want is the return of Jack Bauer, the fictional terrorism fighter from Fox’s long-running
The Mandarin didn’t stand a chance. Neither did any other movie playing in theaters this weekend. Iron Man 3, the superhero sequel that kicked off the summer movie season Friday, crushed both the box office competition as well as a
Washington Wizards center Jason Collins announced he was gay earlier this week, news that rocked the NBA and sparked a fiery debate in talk show circles beyond the realm of sports. Could the news impact a fledgling movie project involving
By LAURAN NEERGAARDAP Medical WriterWASHINGTONThe Plan B morning-after pill is moving over-the-counter, a decision announced by the Food and Drug Administration just days before a court-imposed deadline. Tuesday, the FDA lowered to 15 the age at which girls and women
Spike TV is known for catering to a young male audience with hardcore reality shows, wrestling and even swimsuit programming. The cable channel is shaking up its image with a new scripted series based on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack
Barack Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is panicked enough about the collapse of ObamaCare that they have hired a public relations firms at a cost of $8 million to sell the program to the public. ObamaCare’s main
On Tuesday, the United States Justice Department sued Lance Armstrong, the disgraced cyclist who recently admitted to Oprah Winfrey this year that he had doped during all of his Tour de France titles and intimidated witnesses who had been telling
Marvel’s Iron Man 3 is expected to start the summer move season with a repulsor blast of box office power. Tell that to members of the American Federation of Musicians, a union protesting the company’s use of foreign musicians in
Democrats enjoy a supermajority in the Illinois House of Representatives, holding 71 seats to the GOP’s 47. On Wednesday, the same day the US Senate voted down gun control legislation, powerful Democrat Speaker Michael Madigan tried to push a restrictive
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s nanny-esque attempt to ban large soda sales is having an impact on the nation’s movie houses. Movie theater owners and operators expressed fear of future regulations that would hurt their bottom lines during a
The bipartisan Senate group pushing immigration reform, dubbed the “Gang of Eight,” dropped their bill at 2:25 a.m. The bill clocks in at 844 pages long, and the group’s dead-of-night filing of it means they missed their deadline. A Senate
The bipartisan Senate group pushing immigration reform, dubbed the “Gang of Eight,” has missed its own self-set deadline to drop the approximately 1,500-page bill that aims to overhaul the nation’s immigration system. As of midnight on Tuesday, a senate source
The second seasons for two highly touted shows represent both the current media landscape as well as its future. HBO’s The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s latest liberal indoctrination drama, will debut its sophomore season starting in July. The series stars Jeff
President Barack Obama’s newly unveiled 2014 budget reveals that his original 2010 deficit projections were off by $1,631,000,000,000–or 43 percent. Obama’s initial deficit projection for 2010 to 2014 was $3.767 trillion. In his latest budget, submitted two months after the
Obamacare critics warned that President Barack Obama’s rosy $2 billion cost estimate for the government’s so-called “insurance exchanges” would likely rise. On Wednesday, they more than doubled. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) budget documents state that the federal government
Wednesday morning, President Obama released his long-delayed budget blueprint. Arriving more than two months after the statutory deadline, the budget contains a mix of increased spending, higher taxes and very little real deficit reduction. The White House is quick to
For the fourth time in his presidency, President Barack Obama submitted his budget proposal well after the legally-required February 4th deadline, angering both Republicans and Democrats who are declaring the $3.8 trillion Obama budget dead on arrival. The deficit-busting Obama
The Republican members of the bipartisan Senate “Gang of Eight” have passed the deadline for Senate Judiciary Committee ranking GOP member Sen. Chuck Grassley’s request for a briefing on their coming immigration reform bill. Last week, Grassley (R-IA) and his
On Wednesday, April 3, President Obama announced he would be returning 5% of his paycheck to the federal treasury in a show of shared sacrifice with federal workers facing furloughs because of the sequester. The news came as he once
